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Gaining Control of Our Food: The Radical Underpinnings of Food Sovereignty

by David Gumpert | Feb 6, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 5 comments

For the first time since it began quizzing Americans nearly two decades ago, Pew Research Center has found that a majority of Americans feel the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedom. That finding begins to explain why increasing numbers...

“We Are All Farmers,” Mark Baker Tells Foodies in His 1st Traveling Butchering Class; Bad Cheese Aftertaste at Morningland

by David Gumpert | Jan 29, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 21 comments

Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker has been under a virtual embargo the last several months because of his states prohibition on raising so-called feral pigs–essentially any pigs that Big Ag doesnt want to see produced. The high-end restaurants he formerly...

Can Homestead Creamery Raw Milk Cheese Case Be Resolved Sensibly? Possibly, If Lawyers Move Away

by David Gumpert | Jan 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 22 comments

Its always dangerous from a journalistic perspective to write about a particular food safety situation in the midst of the regulatory process, especially when it involves raw milk. But in the case of the tiny Missouri raw milk cheese maker, Homestead Creamery, Im...

As Missouri Milk Board Plans Morningland Dairys Funeral, Possible Encore At 2nd MO Raw Milk Cheese Maker

by David Gumpert | Jan 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 18 comments

Missouri is turning out to not be a great place for raw milk cheese makers to be operating. On Friday, the sad final scene of a two-and-a-half year tragedy will play out for Morningland Dairy. It is the once-thriving raw-cheese-making business that came under...

When Poop Becomes a “Drug,” Docs Better Watch How They Speak to the FDA

by David Gumpert | Jan 18, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Research | 30 comments

There appears to be a little hangup in all the good news about poop helping cure intestinal infections. You see, when you discover that something, anything, acts as a cure for disease, well, that something becomes, in the parlance of the U.S. Food and Drug...

Words That Define UsAre We Under the Radar, Food Handlers or Grassroots, Sustainable?

by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 19 comments

By Heather RetbergHeather Retberg is a Maine farmer, and one of the organizers of the Food Sovereignty movement that launched in Maine in 2009 and 2010, and has evolved into a national movement. Eight towns in Maine and an unknown number as far west as California have...

Heritage Hog Farmer Mark Baker Struggles to Hold on to His Livelihood, and His Patriotism; Michael Schmidt Update

by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2013 | Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance | 27 comments

Imagine leaving the military after a long career, enthusiastically launching a new business, and then, after much business trauma, concluding that the system you spent years defending with your life is corrupt. That kind of summarizes Mark Bakers experience over...

Here Come FDA Compost Technicians; Flagstaff, AZ, Feels Urgency for Food Sovereignty Ordinance; Hershberger Trial Update

by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 29 comments

Take peanuts. To be safe, I want them tested as they leave the fields. I want them processed at temperatures high enough to kill salmonella. I want to store them covered so birds cant contaminate them with their droppings. I want them tested before they are released...

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